In December 2018, Microsoft announced plans to rebuild the browser as Chromium-based with Blink and V8 engines. Įdge was initially built with Microsoft's own proprietary browser engine EdgeHTML and their Chakra JavaScript engine, a version now referred to as Microsoft Edge Legacy. The Chromium-based Edge replaced Internet Explorer (IE) in Windows 11 as the default web browser (for compatibility with Google Chrome). It was first bundled with Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015, and later released for other platforms: Android and iOS in 2017, macOS and older Windows versions ( Windows 7 and later) in 2019, and Linux in 2020. Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft. Proprietary software, based on open source components Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software Now, according to a report from WindowsCentral, it's possible that Microsoft may be dropping support for Edge entirely, replacing it with a Chromium-based browser instead.Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE distributions) It certainly was universally more liked than Internet Explorer, with Microsoft Edge even making its way to Android and iOS. Without the likes of ActiveX or Browser Helper Objects, it aimed to be a much more lightweight internet browsing solution. Microsoft Edge was released as part of Windows 10 way back in 2015 and was the spiritual successor to the ever-infamous Internet Explorer. Update 1 (12/6/18 1:15 PM ET): Microsoft has confirmed the report of a new Chromium-based version of Edge on their official blog. Update 2 (4/8/19 12:35 PM ET): After leaking a couple of weeks ago, Chromium-based Microsoft Edge is now officially available for download in dev and canary builds. Update 3 (4/8/19 3:50 PM ET): Microsoft has released the first stable build of its Chromium-based Edge browser for Windows 10 and macOS.
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